Cognitive Psychology

What are schemas?

• video tapes and photographs of people, places, or things

• packets' of knowledge that correspond to frequently encountered people, objects or situations.

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  pathways in the brain that enable us to see, hear, and remember pieces of unusual information

• one of the many ineffective tricks our brain uses to locate and remember past information

Long-Term Memory is defined as

• is the process of repeatedly verbalizing or thinking about a piece of information

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  the unlimited capacity memory store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time.

• bringing a thought or idea learned previously, and thus stored in memory into conscious awareness

• The retention of encoded material over time.

the ability to add new information to what is already known

• Assimilation

• Autonomy

• Automatic

• Egocentric

As his AP psychology teacher was lecturing, Tyler was thinking about competing in a swim meet later that afternoon. Where are Tyler's current thoughts being processed?

• Long-term memory

• Hypothalamus

• Working-memory

• Amygdala

Which of the following is not a control process involved in the Multi-Store Memory?

• Attention

• Encoding

• Rehearsal

• Recognition

Miller (1956) suggested that the magic number was ...

• 5

• 9

• 4+4

• 7 ± 2.

The serial position effect refers to which of the following?

• The last effect

• The most recent effect

• Primacy Effect

• Biases

A mental short-cut is also known as:

• Saving energy

• Heuristics

• Short cuts

• Cognitive path

Some of the key problems with schemas could be:

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  Confirmation bias

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  Stereotyping

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  Overgeneralizing

• All of the above

Which sentence best summarizes the findings of Bartlett's study?

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  The story became disjointed, but participants were able to remember the most unfamiliar details most vividly

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  The story became disjointed, and participants often misremembered unfamiliar details in the story

• The story remained a coherent whole, and participants were able to remember the most unfamiliar details most vividly

• The story remained a coherent whole, but participants often misremembered unfamiliar details in the story